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...just an actor of bit parts, but as a playwright who can turn out the sort of thing the Group wants to do. Unconsciously he gathered material for Awake and Sing! during his 20- year residence in The Bronx. Now 28, he spent his professional apprenticeship as a spear-carrier on the road in stock and with the Guild, serving as a radio announcer in between times. He wrote Waiting for Lefty while the Group was in Boston last year. He says he wrote part of Awake and Sing! while cooking for fellow Groupers in their seven-room flat...
...second act bewilderment turns to blazing rage. Under the spell of one of Wagner's convenient potions, Siegfried has tricked her, given her to another. A great Brünnhilde is spine-chilling when she brands the hero as a traitor, swears it by an oath on a spear and then helps plot his death. And at the end she must become a goddess again. Though high passages are long and grueling, a few rare interpreters have made them seem incidental to Brünnhilde's grief, her realization of tragedy as she majestically orders Siegfried...
...match for Wagner's mighty orchestra. Dramatically she was the "heroic female figure" that Wagner imagined. Those who heard her have never forgotten the horror in her voice when she turned on Siegfried, the fury she became when she swore the piercing oath on the spear...
Married. Salvador Franco Urias, attorney; and Jesus Navarro; as proxies for Ludwig Lewisohn, author (Up Stream, Mid-Channel') and Thelma Bowman Spear, singer; in Juarez, Mexico, where in absentia Novelist Lewisohn obtained a divorce from his first wife, Mrs. Mary Arnold Crocker Childs Lewisohn, Author "Bosworth Crocker." In Poland eleven years ago Novelist Lewisohn obtained a rabbinical divorce, the validity of which has since been questioned. He married Miss Spear, begat a child. The Mexican divorce and proxy marriage were an attempt to legalize his position. Mrs. Lewisohn I, who in 1924 obtained a separation providing $55 a week...
...Used to Spear Fishes...